What You Should Make With Your Leftover Chipotle Burrito

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Spoon UIUC teamed up with Food & Wine magazine to increase awareness about the problem of food waste on our campus. With a microgrant of just under $100, we created 10 original recipes to show you how you can transform leftover late-night eats into something equally amazing the next day.

Attempting to heat a leftover burrito is quite possibly more challenging than the stats homework I’ve been avoiding all week. Seriously, I can barely get the thing unstuck from its container – not exactly appetizing.

So we came up with this Mexican fried rice recipe to transform lifeless leftover burritos into fiesta-worthy fried rice dishes. Extra cheesy. Extra easy. Extra good.

Carne Asada Burrito Mexican Fried Rice

Prep Time:10 minutes

Cook Time:7 minutes

Total Time:17 minutes

Servings:4-6 servings

Easy

Ingredients

2 cups of rice, cooked

1 jar of salsa

1 cup Mexican cheese blend, shredded

1 leftover burrito supreme

1/2 avocado, for garnish

3 eggs

Step 1

Cook instant white or brown rice in microwave. Scramble eggs, and remove tortilla from burrito filling and set both aside separately.

Photo by Julia Marks

Step 2

Heat sauté pan and add rice and burrito filling. Mix and let cook for two minutes.

Photo by Julia Marks

Step 3

Add salsa, cheese and scrambled eggs to the pan and mix well. Let cook for five minutes or until cheese melts completely.